2012: A year of resounding victory for Sheffield’s While She Sleeps. With a near faultless debut full length, regular daytime radio airtime and tours pencilled in playing venues they only ever dreamed of, the stage was set for world domination. Then 2013 hit. Following a summer in the States, vocalist Loz Taylor started spitting up blood after performing. The ‘C’ word started to get thrown around. Recording was pushed back further and further. Uncertainty, tension and several hospital stays put the future of the band in jeopardy and the chance of a second album ever seeing the light of day increasingly doubtful.

That was then though. ‘Brainwashed’ is now.

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